It’s hard to figure out a way to say this that won’t sound disrespectful, but journalists sometimes get a pass for bluntness. So let’s try this: Can we move on, please, from the death of Tim Russert? …

Not every death is front-page news, of course. Not every homicide, even, makes it to the cover of the Times Union. It’s not that one life is more valuable than another. It’s that one death may reveal …

Coming next week, the home page of timesunion.com will show off a redesign that we’ll gradually be rolling out throughout the site. This is the third major update since we launched in 1996. Among the …